There are genuinely clever April Fools', hacks that actually took thought and effort, those I want to see. Then there the pedestrian HN variety which boil down to either a “funny” landing page or an outrageous press-release, all meant to paint its expounding entity as fun and/or interesting.

Nothing in principle, but on a user-submitted-content site like this, the one or two clever submissions often get lost in a mountain of mediocrity, despite the voting system - or at least that has been my perception.

I haven’t been on Lobsters long enough to know what April Fool’s Day looks like here, but almost every other site I frequent is painful. And not just on April 1st, but parts of March 31st and April 2nd, as well, until the timezones have all gone around.

This seems like what the voting system is meant to solve. I recommend you downvote the crap out of all april fools content if you don’t want to see it. If the voting system is broken, we should fix it.